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Today is Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Classical

What Classics do Your Recommend? (Free Download)

The Heart of Wisdom approach recommends immersing your children in living books or classical literature. We believe you should read the greatest classic—the Bible—the only real, literal, living book, daily, and attempt to read several classics throughout the year. Free 31 page PDF Choosing and Using Resources.

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Greek vs Hebrew Education

What we now consider “The Church” is almost nothing like the Early New Testament Church. Think of an archeologist digging through layers to find out what life was like in ancient times.
Historians concur that the Greeks were destroyed by moral decay. Pursuing knowledge without God is a recipe for disaster. We simply cannot survive without [...]

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Reading Aloud Robinson Crusoe & Other Classics

I just finished reading Robinson Crusoe to my 8 and 9 year-old boys.
Should You Read the Originals or Adaptations?
Literature for the masses or literature for the lazy? Does it matter? We used a children’s adaptation to read Robinson Crusoe (apologies to Charlotte Mason- she prefers the originals).
Long chapters and difficult language can overwhelm [...]

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Should Christian Educators Teach Logic?

Logic and rhetoric are extremely popular and enthusiastically sought after by those in the homeschool community. But how important are logic and rhetoric? How much weight should they have in our homeschool day?

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What is Classical Education?

This surge of interest to return to Greek classical education cries, “We need to return to the traditional literary culture, the classical standards of the past.” Insistence on a “back to basics” curriculum of “reading, writing and arithmetic,” has again become popular. It is a desire to turn back to the fork where we took the wrong road.

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Returning to Traditional Education-What Tradition?

Today, there is a surge of interest in the secular world to return to Greek classical education. “We need to return to the traditional literary culture, the classical standards of the past,” experts demand. Insistence on a “back to basics” of “reading, writing and arithmetic,” has again become popular. It is a desire to turn [...]